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"When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy."
"Success doesn't stop when you get there"
"Live the moment for the moment."
"Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise."
"Praise behaviour that you want repeated"
"The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made."
"I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era."
"I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA."
"The same way you slow me down: … You can’t."
"I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life."
"The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal."
"Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates"
"Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park."
"The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department."
"I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way."
"The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman."
"If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been."
"The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com."
"The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal."
"Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help."
